Nokia Music PC application is now available in beta form from the Nokia Beta Labs website. The application is designed to help you manage your music collection on your PC and transfer it your mobile device. The software has been designed with mobile users in mind and includes the ability to directly rip a CD to a mobile device, easy side loading of music from a PC and bi-directional playlist and music sync.
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Hmm... interesting.
So presumably they've now abandoned Music Manager?
^good riddance! this has so much more potential and looks much more useful, and dare I say, natural. Yay for drag and drop.
Looks awesome.. can't wait it to be live, and to get a new N Series for AT&T... and a US Music Store.. ahh.. N78 combined with this would be just sweet. Until N96 comes out with AT&T (yeah yeah, subsidized price, unlocked thereafter). Yes, one can dream! 😊
WPF? Why not Qt, hmmm.
This looks promising though it still does not transfer album art across to the phone! It shows the album art when i browse my N95 8GB in the Nokia Music application but it's not visible on the phone. If Nokia want to make a serious attempt to rival Itunes this needs to be fixed asap. You shouldn't have to maunually add album art on the phone.
Umm well the review stated that album art will be officially supported and capable of adding to your music in the final release. so yeah, its coming.
@ RogerPodacter.
Where does it mention in the review that 'album art will be officially supported and capable of adding to your music in the final release'. I cant see it. I bet it gets released without this very basic and fundamental function.:con?
Will this allow you to sync your music titles over wifi then?
Album art has always been a bug bear of mine since moving to the N95. Adding them directly in the phone does not retain the thumbnails once the image has been deleted (it used to do this successfully on my N73) and the only way to get album art to go across to the N95 and be retained is by using Nokia Music Manager, copying the tracks to "My Collection", adding the art by selecting all relevant tracks and dragging and dropping the image file to the image recepticle at the bottom of NMM, then transferring the tracks to the phone. Hardly intuitive or user friendly.
This application needs to grab album art from the web automatically and have it transfer, even if ripping a CD direct to the mobile device.
With regards to Album Art - the problem is that S60 phones only seem to see album art if it is specifically specified as being Album Art (Front Cover) or similar in the ID3 tag.
A lot of programs will not make this distinction when editing ID3 tags and hence it will not show up on the phone. If you do it correctly then album art will show. It took me a while to figure this out the get album art working on AAS podcasts!
Two problems that will likely stop me using this application.
1) Again, unless I'm very much mistaken, it is Microsoft Windows only. They really need to consider doing some portable applications that work on any OS. I'm sure there are technologies that allow this to be done and still have a decent application (Songbird comes to mind).
2) No mention of podcasts. This is the main reason I used iTunes and an iPod at the moment, and iTunes is particularly lacking in support for podcasts (most things need to be done manually) on my swimman shuffle at least.
Clearly, the first one is a show-stopper for me. I need OS X support at the very least, and preferably Linux support (Ubuntu would do nicely).
EDIT:
3) As mentioned below, doesn't work on my phone which is an E90, which is also a show-stopper :|
At the risk of embarassing myself completely, is this only working at present with N Series devices? I don't have one now! The front-end won't seem to acknowledge the presence of my E51 or E90. Tried connecting via PCSuite connection option and MSD. I've hunted through the 'help' files in the app to no avail. I can't find anywhere where it tells you which connection method to use. Or what devices are compatible.
Tim
Update: Apologies - just found compatability list at Nokia Beta Labs and sure enough - it's the old N-Gage problem again - E Series users are supposed to not have fun.
Tim
Yes only with Nseries device - it needs MTP as a connection option when you plug in your USB cable. Unfortunately MSD and PC Suite mode wont work.
Rafe wrote:Yes only with Nseries device - it needs MTP as a connection option when you plug in your USB cable. Unfortunately MSD and PC Suite mode wont work.
Wow. Acronym overload, batman!
In any case, there's 'nothing' to stop them implementing any usb acronym you like in firmware, I think.
Is the beta version better than the old one?